The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-05-14
CROP REPORT.


First of the Proposed Weekly weather
Bulletins Issued by the SicnaI Service
An Important and Interesting Resume
of General Conditions of Value to the
Agricultural Interests.
WASHINGTON, May 0-The first of the
proposed weather crop bulletins, that are
to be issued weekly, from the Signal Of
flee, was given to the press yesterday 1t
embodies a resume of temperature and
rainfall throughout the country from Jan
uary to May of the present year and
reads as follows:
SIGMA OFFICE.
WASHINGTON, May 8.
Temperature: During the present year, com.
mencing with January l, and ending May 1,
the weather has been colder than usual in the
States bordering on the Atlantic coast, and
from New England westward over thc great
lakes, upper Mississippi and Missouri valleys
TO the Rocky Mountains; the regions of great
est cold being in the States bordering on the
great lakes ana thence westward to the Mssis-
sippl river over which the aggregate defcen-
cy Of the daily mean temperatures from Janu-
airy l, to date ranged from 30 to 40
degrees IAN average daily deficiency OF
from about IS. degrees to 3 degrees)
In Northern New England and in the
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temperature ranged from 100 to 800
degrees, Tor an average of about l
| degree to 2 degrees) colder than usual. The
weather has been warmer than usual since
January in the East and West Gulf States,
tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia and in the
northern portion of Ohio, Illinois and Missouri,
the aggregate excess Of the daily mean temper
allure from January to date ranging from
100 to 200 degrees over the whole
OF the region named. During the week ending
May Z, 1887, the temperature has been
warmer than the average for the week. in all
| districts east of the Rocky mountains
excepting the Florida peninsula, and Texas.
/ The increase Of temperature over the normal
/ for the week in the wheat and corn regions
north OF the f0rtieth parallel of latitude has
! eraged about 80 degrees, and this EXCESS has
/ therefore caused a rapid advance of the season
over the region where it was much retarded. In
| the South the region of excessive temperature
has received a still further increase, and along
! the Atlantic coast the excess of temperature
! for the week ranged from % to 80 degrees,
! thereby reducing the deficiency in the
! temperature for the season in these States and
I giving conditions favorable to agricultural in
terests
Rainfall during the season from January to
May !, 1887. Since January there has been a
large deficiency in rainfall for the Northern
States ranging from six TO nine inches in the
Gulf States and the interior of the South AT
, lantic States. The deficiency in the grain
regions of the Northwest has been slight, rang
ing from one to three inches in the lower Mis-
souri, Valley and averaging about one inch in
the upper Mississippi Valley. The only regions
showing an excess of precipitation for the sea
son are as follows: Northern New England, thu
Hudson River valley, the Ohio valley, station!
on Lake Erie and in Eastern Michigan and il
the western portions of Kansas and Nebraska
The greatest excess, ranging from three Il
Tour inches, for the season. covers Northern
and Western Ohio and the western portions o
Pennsylvania and New York Slight deticien
cies in the rainfall for the season are reported
from Central and Southern California.
During the past week the rainfall in tn,
Northern portions OF Wisconsin, Minnesota
Dakota and in the West Gulf States, in Cen
trail Mississippi, Northern Georgia and Contra
Alabama, have been slightly above the aver
age for the week, the heaviest rainfalls occur
ring in Eastern Texas, Arkansas and Southern
Missouri, thus, in measure, alternating tn
drought previously existing in those sections
In the western portions of New York an,
Pennsylvania and in Northern Ohio, the rain
fall for the week has served T.
increase the excess Of rainfall
already reported in those sections
1t will thus be seen that the seasons to dat
in the various sections of the country hav
been about as follows: In the gram regions o
the North it has been comparatively cold an
dry; in the cotton regions to the west of GeoI
gia, warm and unusually dry; in the Cotto
and rice regions of the South Atlantic coast
cold and comparatively dry; in the Tobacco
regions Of Virginia and North Carolina, col
and dry in the tobacco regions OF Kentucky
Tennessee and Pennsylvania, the weather ha
been warmer. with rainfall slightly less thai
, usual except in north Kentucky, where tn
rainfall was slightly in excess. From the re
ports received it appears that the meteorolog
; cal conditions of the past week have had tn
effect of rapidly advancing the season in thos
sections, where it had been previously retarded
[Signed A. w. GREEDY,
Chief of Signal ONCE.